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Resource summary

1.2 1.73 million bombs were
dropped on the German
trenches and 1/3 of them
did not work

1.3 Bayonets

1.4 Chiefly used as
a psychological
weapon

1.5 Flamethrowers

1.6 Grenades

1.7 Mills Bombs and Jam
Pots (both forms of
grenades)

1.8 Machine Guns

1.9 Pistols (The officer's weapon)

1.10 Poison Gas

1.11 Rifles

1.12 Tanks (only in the last few months)

1.13 Trench Mortars

1.14 Light and Heavy Artillery

2 Dates

2.1 Started: 1st July 1916

2.2 Ended: 18th of November 1916

2.3 Introduction of
tanks: 15th
September 1916

2.4 8 days of British
artillery
bombardment
before the battle
officially started.

3 Causes

3.1 The operation of the
battle of the somme
was anishaly coreated
to releave some of the
preshuers of the
battle of vredan (the
major battle at that
time of the great war)

3.2 The French
preshureised the
British into
launching the battle
earlier that
antisapated, due to
their claim that they
could not hold off
the German line for
much longer, leading
to a break in the
Allied front line.

4 Outcome

4.1 German Army
withdraws 40 miles to
the Hindenburg Line.

4.2 The Allied
trupes won this
battle

5 Satistecs

5.1 100,000 British soldiers
joined the battle. By the
end of the day, there
were 58,000 casualties,
including 19,000 dead.

5.2 60,000 British soldiers
climbed out of their
trenches and began to
move across No Man’s
Land. Within 1 hour, over
half of these men were
dead or wounded.